Malcolm and Macduff

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  • Macduff and Malcolm
    • Perfect king
      • "unknown to a women, never was forsworn."
        • foil to Macbeth
          • Macbeth went against his faith and dabbled in the supernateral and was swayed by Satan
          • stereotype of what all kings should be
            • Malcolm is very religious and never deterred from his faith as being a man of strong catholic following
            • holds very little greed and is unknown to the touch of a women; implying he is a virgin
            • pure and will rule with good, restoring Scotland to its previous glory- uses Malcolm to foreshadow that
        • at no time broke his faith."
      • "child of integrity."
        • Semantic field of religion
          • Them being together gives this hope of them bringing the "chance of goodness"
            • Morality play- goodness will always overcome evil.
        • noun "child"
          • Malcolm refers to Macduff as a child even though he is older than him
            • By Malcolm doing this it shows that he is all knowing and all pure with Macduff representing Jesus's first disciple (Peter).
        • religious imagery
          • similar character to Jesus
    • Macduff is the foil of Macbeth
      • 'each new morn... strike heaven on the face'
        • religious imagery
          • Macduff puts his religion and his country before his own needs and emotions
        • emotive language
          • this shows his patriotism because he thinks about everybodys needs and wants to protect even by preventing any 'new orphans' etc before thinking o himself
      • 'oh horror, horror, horror... the life of the building'
        • anaphora
          • shows how emotional and pained he is by the Kings death- shows the loyalty and respect Macduff has for Kings
        • metaphor
          • shows Macduff's belief in the divine right of the king
            • is used to show what people in the Shakespearean time should have been like
      • 'feel it like a man'
        • shows that Macduff both cares about others because he cry's when his family die but also is powerful because he is also going to go and fight Macbeth to help get revenge for his family and Scotland

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